Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Old Are Eating the Young – Bloomberg
- The West Will Have to Go It Alone, Without the United States – Foreign Policy
- US Treasury’s leverage fix tipped to boost repo market – Risk.net
- The Global Economy Is Rebounding, But There’s One Big Problem – Bloomberg
- Shiller vs. Siegel: Is the Stock Market Overvalued? – CFA Institute
- Bitcoin Is Helping the Pot Business Get Over Its Banking Problem – Bloomberg
- The mystery at the heart of the 2017 economy – Politico
- Inflation fizzle may once again leave Fed rate path in doubt – Reuters
- Bitcoiners Are Freaking Out Over ’The Flippening’ – Vice
- Containers and globalisation – VOX
Americas:
- Trump partner said in running to build FBI headquarters – AP
- Congressional Democrats to file emoluments lawsuit against Trump – Washington Post
- Trump knocks House health care bill as too harsh – Politico
- Trump’s New Sugar High – WSJ
- A President at War With His Fed Chief, 5 Decades Before Trump – NY Times
- Senate GOP reins in expectations for killing Obamacare – Politico
- Bernie Sanders: How Democrats Can Stop Losing Elections – NY Times
- Six-Figure Earners Are a Growing Share of U.S. ‘Gig’ Workforce – Bloomberg
- How small-town jails drive America’s high incarceration rate – NBC
- This eye-popping chart on inequality is a slap in the face of America’s middle class – Business Insider
- NAFTA and other trade deals have not gutted American manufacturing – VOX
- Inside Venezuela: The Socialist Haven on the Brink of Total Collapse – Breibart
Europe:
- London tower block fire: Flames engulf Grenfell Tower – BBC
- Labour Party Membership Soars By 35,000 In Just Four Days – Huffington Post
- How Macron Keeps Winning – Project Syndicate
- Kim Jong Macron? The case for a fairer French parliament – Politico
- Italy’s new crash on Berlusconi – Bloomberg
- Disentangling Brexit trade politics and policies – Sussex
- John Major warns Theresa May her DUP deal risks violence in Northern Ireland – Business Insider
- Barnier Says U.K. Risks Crashing Out of EU If More Time Wasted – Bloomberg
- Wage squeeze worsens as UK inflation rate jumps to 2.9% – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Wu Xiaohui steps aside as Anbang chairman – BBC
- U.S. weighs restricting Chinese investment in artificial intelligence – Reuters
- The Japan Times sold to Tokyo-based PR company – Nikkei
- Chinese Builders Take Guo Wengui to U.S. Court Over Alleged Unpaid Bills – Caixin
- Why China no longer fears the Fed – FT
- Global credit bubble at risk of bursting as China and US reach tipping point – The Telegraph
Trans-Tasman:
- Climate sceptic Cory Bernardi puts solar panels on his roof – The AFR
- Coalition accused of vilification after releasing list of ‘bludger hotspots’ – The Guardian
- Adani embroiled in African corruption scandal via arms deal – Michael West
- Telstra to cut 1400 jobs – IT News
- Greg Hunt warns ‘lives at risk’ as Senate eases imports of medical cannabis – SBS
- Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that – The Conversation
- Commonwealth agrees to pay Manus Island detainees $70m in class action settlement – ABC
- Wholesale power prices have doubled since the carbon tax was axed – The SMH
- Trouble brews as Coalition MPs take Turnbull to task over Clean Energy Target – New Daily
- Tesla’s Powerwall 2 will drop power bill to $0, says Melbourne man – The Age
- F6 Extension to mean bulldozing 460 homes or cutting through the Royal National Park – The SMH
- Drug testing for welfare recipients slammed as ‘cheap, populist nonsense’ in Victoria – ABC
- Cost-cutting on security puts Coalition at risk of falling to the Corbyn effect – The Guardian
- Senior Liberals dismiss Turnbull leadership threat – In Daily
- Alleged charity rorter blames any mistakes on being ‘underpaid and overworked’ – The Guardian
- The rise – and risk – of ‘early inheritance syndrome’ – Brisbane Times
- Australian universities admitting 56 per cent of students without ATAR – The SMH
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Current account heading the wrong way…again – Interest.co.nz
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